Ryan: 'We agree' with Biden that middle class is being 'buried'

By Jennifer Epstein

10/02/12 04:01 PM EDT

Rep. Paul Ryan agrees with Vice President Joe Biden's comment that the middle class has been "buried," the Republican candidate said Tuesday in Iowa.

"We agree," Ryan said, referencing remarks that the vice president made earlier the day in North Carolina. "That means we need to stop digging by electing Mitt Romney the next president of the United States."

"Of course the middle class has been buried. They're being buried by regulations, they're being buried by taxes, they're being buried by borrowing, they're being buried by the Obama administration’s economic failures.”

In a discussion of the Romney campaign's tax plan, Biden asked: "How they can justify raising taxes on the middle class that has been buried the last four years?"